Creative Boom

MAY 11, 2023

Image licensed via Adobe Stock Times are tough for a lot of freelancers out there right now. If our recent survey of creative freelancers is anything to go by, you may well be struggling. So that means almost three-quarters of you are failing to thrive in 2023, and that's not a situation any freelancer should be happy with.

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Graphic Design Junction

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Over the years, Alexis has collaborated with some of the worlds leading brands and agencies, including Nike, PepsiCo, Hewlett Packard, Electronic Arts, BMW, Gatorade, Air Jordan, and The Washington Post, among many others.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 20, 2022

Launching a new shop is a brave enterprise in an increasingly challenging retail environment, and good branding can mean the difference between success and failure. Lynne McCusker is a senior freelance designer based in Scotland. The main brand orange is also a favourite of the client, so this had to feature prominently.".

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Creative Boom

JULY 5, 2022

For Sarah Madden , a graphic designer based in Leeds, she realised she wanted to embrace freelance illustration and design full-time to explore a better lifestyle. So at the beginning of June, she handed in her notice to her agency boss and declared herself an official freelance illustrator and designer. I'm not keen on crowds.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Whether it's a financial barrier, lack of representation, or just the fact that it's highly competitive, it can sometimes feel impossible to jump that first hurdle and land a decent paying job, internship or freelance contract.

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Graphic Design Junction

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Whether youre a startup founder, a creative freelancer, or an established entrepreneur, a well-designed business cards helps you leave a lasting impression. A professional business card is more than just contact informationits a reflection of your brand. Easily Editable for easy understanding. Just drop in your texts, and it is ready.

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Just Creative

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Have you checked the latest figures on the freelance workforce? Now, the number of freelancers is projected to reach more than 90 million in less than a decade. On top of that, the annual increase in the global freelance workforce keeps getting higher and higher. Why Personal Branding for Freelancers?

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

One dynamic duo leading the way in Montréal is Ash Phillips and Miro LaFlaga, who runs Six Cinquième , a creative agency that's pushing for change and doing things very differently. You've built an agency based on a realisation that we don't have to "hustle" to be a success? So you were freelancers before you launched your agency?

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Designer Ferran Feixas has worked with some of the industry's most iconic agencies, from Pentagram to Interbrand, Wolff Olins to Mother Design. Our recent interview with Teemu Suviala on why today's brands are too bland is a case in point. Case in point, freelance designer and art director Ferran Feixas doesn't hate on social media.

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Graphic Design Junction

JANUARY 21, 2025

Minimalist business cards create a sleek and sophisticated brand identity, ensuring a strong first impression. The simplicity of these designs ensures that your brand stands out with elegance and style. Business cards remain an essential networking tool, offering a physical reminder of your brand.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 13, 2022

It's no secret that brand guidelines have become a major headache for graphic designers working today. Corebook is on a mission to help and wants to make PDF brand guidelines extinct by 2025. In 2022, dealing with brand guidelines remains a clunky, frustrating process for many. That approach might have worked okay in the 1990s.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 29, 2025

Best of all, this is a flexible degree that can be tailored to your interestsfor example, in app development, animation, visual identity and branding, illustration, photography, typography and publishing, or graphic design in general. She continues to judge major industry awards, including Creative Circle, D&AD and Campaign Big.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Whether you're a founder or freelancer, creative entrepreneurship is hard. Consequently, many independent creative founders and freelancers share a longing for connection, reassurance and motivation. Consequently, many independent creative founders and freelancers share a longing for connection, reassurance and motivation.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

We chatted with Ed Little, director of the London studio Regular Practice , about putting design at the heart of strategy, how the nature of branding is (fast) evolving, and what agencies need to do to keep up. It's got to come through in how people feel the brand for it to be effective in most cases.

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Creative Boom

MAY 12, 2024

Image licensed via Adobe Stock We canvass a panel of experts on where the graphic design profession is heading and how agencies might fit into a brave new, AI-driven world. And as brand people, we're trying to build something that lasts. But with branding, the primary objectiveness is distinctiveness."

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Creative Boom

JUNE 26, 2023

Image licensed via Adobe Stock There are many ways to get your first freelance gig. Embarking on a freelance career is an exhilarating journey filled with boundless opportunities and the freedom to shape your professional destiny. Whether or not you land freelance work entirely depends on your own initiative.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

With the rise of digital tools both for making art and sending it around the world in an instant, in one sense, it's now easier than ever to make money as a freelance illustrator. David Goldman Agency When David Goldman launched his own firm in 1980, he aimed to represent world-class talent and offer great personal service to clients.

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Just Creative

AUGUST 31, 2020

We’re more than halfway through 2020, and the freelance gig economy continues to expand full-throttle as a viable primary source of income for all types of professionals. alone within the last decade, freelance work will only continue to thrive – presenting more and more opportunities to the solopreneurs and side hustlers of the world.

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Graphic Design Junction

AUGUST 3, 2021

Clean and professionally designed business cards can make a lasting impression, so it is important to choose only high quality Business Card Templates for your business or personal branding. Ideal for personal / professional branding and more. This template is perfect for you who currently creating your own brand identity.

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Graphic Design Junction

MARCH 17, 2022

25+ Realistic Mockup Templates For Brand Identity. Free Branding / Stationery Mockups PSD. WordPress Themes are created for different kinds of businesses and blogs such as Agency, Business, Corporate, Portfolio, Freelancer, Architecture, Vintage, Studio, Presentation, Freelancer, Shop, Vintage, Blog and any online site you want.

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Graphic Design Junction

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Whether you’re an artist, designer, product developer or a creative agency, a stunning portfolio is essential. These WP themes are the best choice for you to create a business, creative agency or personal portfolio, photography or a blogging website. Clean multipurpose Portfolio WordPress Themes are very easy to use.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 17, 2023

Many graphic designers are also freelance, so their earnings are generally kept to themselves. How much does a freelance graphic designer make? Most freelance graphic designers will start with a lower rate and raise their rates over time as they build their portfolio and reputation. How do I become a freelance graphic designer?

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Creative Boom

JUNE 13, 2023

We look at Franklyn's new design refresh for the brand and the backstory behind it. Designers and agency heads often like to talk about the "challenge" of taking on a new client, but most of the time, the stakes are not, in all honesty, that high. If you haven't heard of WeWork, here's a quick refresher. So far, so good.

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Creative Boom

MAY 6, 2024

The founding partner of Chromatic believes agencies aren't being honest about looming job losses. Are we entering the age of the single-person, full-service agency? The big agency networks are not telling the truth about what's going to happen," he asserts. Could the same shakeout be about to happen to large creative agencies?

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Creative Boom

APRIL 21, 2024

From pioneering entrepreneurs to innovative brand leaders and multidisciplinary creative forces, these are the movers and shakers propelling their respective fields forward. To answer that question, we turned to Frontify , our favourite cloud-based, brand-building platform. So, who are the names we need to know? Not rocket science."

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Creative Boom

JULY 18, 2024

In 2020, he secured his first freelance project, designing gym wear for an overseas client. This experience opened doors to collaborations with both local and international brands and studios. For this reason, his vision for The Torsche is to highlight exceptional projects and their impact on brands and companies.

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Graphic Design Junction

JANUARY 12, 2023

Whether you’re an artist, designer, product developer or a creative agency, a stunning portfolio is essential. These WP themes are the best choice for you to create a business, creative agency or personal portfolio, photography or a blogging website. XEN – Creative Portfolio Agency WordPress Theme.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 8, 2023

Branding Design of the Year 2023: Campus, Reading International by Socrates Communications The victors of the Indigo Design Award 2023 offer extraordinary examples of real-world design we can all seek to emulate. Brooklyn-based strategy and design studio Team brought this mission to the fore with a new brand identity.

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Creative Boom

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Credit: James Hurst / Punk Works The former Head of Brand Design at Google opened his own studio, Punk Works, this January. Hurst recently sat down with Creative Boom to introduce his new venture and share why he wants more branding agencies to embrace their punk side. Punk Works will put that mission into practice.

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Graphic Design Junction

MARCH 11, 2024

In today’s competitive marketplace, building a strong brand is essential for success. A brand visual identity which including brand logo, website, mobile app and stationery items are playing a pivotal role in shaping its perception among consumers, distinguishing it from competitors, and fostering loyalty and trust.

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Graphic Design Junction

MAY 11, 2024

It’s a tangible representation of your brand, a physical object someone can hold onto and reference later. This guide delves into the power of clean business cards and provides actionable steps to create one that reflects your brand perfectly and 20+ pre-design business card template ready to print.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

So earlier this year, they left their jobs and founded their own branding studio, Goodside , in San Francisco. Weaving colour, concept, and copy into cohesive brand systems that scale." We're continuously energised by wonderful, weird and boundary-pushing work that independent creatives, studios and agencies are putting out there.

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Creative Boom

JANUARY 28, 2025

Aware of Royal Salute's past collaborations with illustrators for its Lunar New Year editions, Jason dropped the creative agency Boundless Brand Design an email early in 2023. Always made from a blend of malts aged 21 years or older, the scotch brand itself represents the 21-gun salute given to Elizabeth II on her coronation in 1953.

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Graphic Design Junction

MARCH 14, 2023

The WordPress themes are best choice for you to create a business, creative agency or personal portfolio, photography or a blogging website. Download Moonex – Agency & Portfolio WordPress Theme Moonex – creative multi-concept agency & portfolio theme. You may be interested in the following articles as well.

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Graphic Design Junction

JANUARY 18, 2023

The business cards are perfect for any business and ideal for personal branding. Visser Minimal Business Card template Suitable for any kind of business like Corporate Business, Agency, Creative, Blog, Magazine, Retail, Photographer, Artist, Designer, Freelancers and much more. Visser Minimal Business Card.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 18, 2022

We love the typography, the work page layouts, and, most of all, we adore the ability to add our own branding to the design. The 'studio' option, meanwhile, better suits a studio and has everything you might expect from a professional agency website. Oshine by Brand Exponents for WordPress. But boy, is it beautiful.

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Creative Boom

AUGUST 13, 2024

Image licensed via Adobe Stock Want to use the professional network to boost your freelance career? Social media isn't what it used to be, especially for creative freelancers wishing to grow their careers. Freelance motion designer Fee Sheal agrees. "I, Our agency has struggled over the last year," he says.

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